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… has raised $10 million in a funding round led by GV (formerly Google Ventures), with participation from existing investors Benchmark and A Capital.

Buoyant, a San Francisco company developing an open source mesh for cloud applications, today announced that it has raised $10 million in a funding round led by GV (formerly Google Ventures), with participation from existing investors Benchmark and A Capital. This comes after a $10.5 million series A round in July 2017, bringing the company’s total venture capital raised to over $24 million, and it will be used to “further propel” its solution’s features and community growth, according to CEO and cofounder William Morgan.

“[Our] momentum has never been higher than it is now, in large part because of users who are frustrated by the complexity and big-vendor nature of other service mesh projects,” Morgan said. “Our focus … is 100 percent on solving real problems and minimizing complexity, not on pushing a particular cloud provider agenda or building technology for technology’s sake.”

Buoyant — which Morgan cofounded with fellow Twitter infrastructure engineer Oliver Gould in 2015 — created, maintains, and contributes to Linkerd, an Apache-licensed, Rust-based network proxy designed to be deployed as a service atop Google’s Kubernetes and other container orchestrators. It’s a lightweight (less than 10MB) abstract layer for managing, controlling, and monitoring interservice communication within apps. The apps tap Linkerd by running instances and proxying calls through these instances, while under the hood Linkerd applies routing rules; balances network load; provides TLS encryption; and instruments reporting metrics like success rate, request throughput, and latency distributions.

In that respect, it’s not far off from Istio, a network mesh that similarly combines load balancing with dynamic routing. Coincidentally, startup Tetrate this week raised $12.5 million to maintain and support Istio and Envoy, its control layer, with open source tools, certified builds, and adapters.

Both Buoyant and Tetrate’s financing rounds come as an increasing share of companies — as many as 86 percent, according to a recent reported published by Dimensional Research — expect services and microservices to become part of their app stack in the next five years. (Microservices are collections of loosely coupled, independently deployable components embedded within apps across private and public clouds.) Analysts at Camunda say that 63 percent of enterprises they recently surveyed are currently using microservices architectures.

Linkerd is hosted by the Linux Foundation’s Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), an industry consortium working toward a blueprint for scalable cloud-based architectures, and it underlies the infrastructure of companies like Ticketmaster, Comcast, Salesforce, Monzo, PayPal, CreditKarma, OfferUp, NextVR, Chase Bank, and Expedia’s HomeAway. Linkerd 2.0 — a major rewrite — was released in September (roughly two years after Linkerd’s debut) and improves the framework’s performance and resource consumption.

“Linkerd is a critical component of our multi-cloud, highly scaled architecture,” said HomeAway principal architect Mark Tyrrell. “The Linkerd service mesh has allowed us to scale microservices and applications to handle incredibly high volumes of traffic in a way that’s secure against failures of individual machines, clusters, or even regions.”

Buoyant recently announced commercial support for Linkerd, which it expects will make up a significant portion of revenue in the coming years. Basic service starts at $100 a month and includes a subscription to the company’s production runbook, while the variably priced premium tier adds on-call support, technical assistance, and architectural and configuration consulting.

“Linkerd’s widely used service mesh is multiplatform, ultrafast, and proven at scale,” said GV’s Dave Munichiello. “The project’s focus on simplicity, speed, and scale has driven rapid adoption among both startups and large enterprises. We’ve been impressed by Buoyant’s execution to date and are excited to help as they enter their next phase of growth.”

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Gateway Investment Advisers Llc increased its stake in Nvidia Corp (NVDA) by 2.57% based on its latest 2018Q4 regulatory filing with the SEC.

Gateway Investment Advisers Llc increased its stake in Nvidia Corp (NVDA) by 2.57% based on its latest 2018Q4 regulatory filing with the SEC. Gateway Investment Advisers Llc bought 7,834 shares as the company’s stock declined 2.06% while stock markets rallied. The institutional investor held 312,837 shares of the semiconductors company at the end of 2018Q4, valued at $41.76 million, up from 305,003 at the end of the previous reported quarter. Gateway Investment Advisers Llc who had been investing in Nvidia Corp for a number of months, seems to be bullish on the $102.18B market cap company. The stock increased 3.75% or $6.1 during the last trading session, reaching $168.62. About 18.93M shares traded or 14.81% up from the average. NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) has declined 32.48% since March 13, 2018 and is downtrending. It has underperformed by 36.85% the S&P500. Some Historical NVDA News: 27/03/2018 – Nvidia Shows Off Self-driving Simulator After Halting Tests — MarketWatch; 22/03/2018 – deepsense.ai Becomes NVIDIA Deep Learning Partner; 15/03/2018 – Selling GE, Intel, AMD, Micron, Buying Nvidia — Barrons.com; 19/03/2018 – NVIDIA RTX Technology Realizes Dream of Real-Time Cinematic Rendering; 28/03/2018 – Chipmaker Nvidia’s CEO says Uber does not use its self-driving processing solution; 08/03/2018 LIVE MARKETS-Rising rates: Tech won this battle, but can it win the war?; 28/03/2018 – ProactiveInvstrs: Tesla and Nvidia among the worst hit in Tuesday’s tech sell-off amid fresh concerns over driverless cars; 30/05/2018 – Supermicro Unveils 2 PetaFLOPS SuperServer Based on New NVIDIA HGX-2, the World’s Most Powerful Cloud Server Platform for Al and HPC; 10/04/2018 – Brew City Royalties: Nvidia is a buy according to Bank of America, Apple reportedly dives deeper into augmented realit; 16/03/2018 – Nvidia: Arrival of ‘Proof of Stake’ Could Crimp Crypto Gains, Says RBC — Barron’s Blog

Origin Asset Management Llp increased its stake in Infosys Ltd (INFY) by 25.67% based on its latest 2018Q4 regulatory filing with the SEC. Origin Asset Management Llp bought 943,300 shares as the company’s stock rose 9.31% with the market. The institutional investor held 4.62M shares of the edp services company at the end of 2018Q4, valued at $43.96M, up from 3.67 million at the end of the previous reported quarter. Origin Asset Management Llp who had been investing in Infosys Ltd for a number of months, seems to be bullish on the $43.96B market cap company. The stock increased 0.38% or $0.04 during the last trading session, reaching $10.56. About 9.81 million shares traded or 4.03% up from the average. Infosys Limited (NYSE:INFY) has risen 23.18% since March 13, 2018 and is uptrending. It has outperformed by 18.81% the S&P500. Some Historical INFY News: 13/04/2018 – INFOSYS- CO INITIATED IDENTIFICATION, EVALUATION OF POTENTIAL BUYERS FOR UNITS KALLIDUS AND SKAVA AND PANAYA; 13/04/2018 – Infosys 4Q Rev $2.81B; 13/04/2018 – INFOSYS TO BUY AWARD-WINNING CREATIVE, CONSUMER INSIGHT AGENCY,; 13/04/2018 – INFOSYS 4Q NET INCOME 36.9B RUPEES; 16/05/2018 – Scandinavian Investors Buy PPL, Southern; Sell Infosys: 13F; 13/04/2018 – INFOSYS SEES FY19 SALES GROWTH AT 6%-8%; 15/03/2018 – INFOSYS: / MEDIA RELEASE (REVISED); 17/04/2018 – New Infosys CEO Says Now Is Time to Sacrifice Margins for Growth; 13/04/2018 – Infosys’ new CEO to sell 3 subsidiaries bought by predecessor; 13/04/2018 – INDIA’S INFOSYS’ EXEC SAYS CO EXPLORING POTENTIAL BUYERS FOR SUBSIDIARIES INCLUDING SKAVA AND PANAYA

Since September 19, 2018, it had 0 insider buys, and 5 selling transactions for $33.33 million activity. On Tuesday, October 2 the insider Puri Ajay K sold $26.28M. Kress Colette sold 889 shares worth $131,496. 11,257 shares were sold by Byron Michael, worth $2.97M on Monday, September 24.

Gateway Investment Advisers Llc, which manages about $12.58 billion and $10.57B US Long portfolio, decreased its stake in Mattel Inc (NASDAQ:MAT) by 393,263 shares to 76,866 shares, valued at $768,000 in 2018Q4, according to the filing. It also reduced its holding in Patterson Uti Energy Inc (NASDAQ:PTEN) by 303,283 shares in the quarter, leaving it with 55,003 shares, and cut its stake in Target Corp (NYSE:TGT).

EPAM Systems Inc. (NYSE:EPAM) and Infosys Limited (NYSE:INFY) are two firms in the Information Technology Services that compete against each …

EPAM Systems Inc. (NYSE:EPAM) and Infosys Limited (NYSE:INFY) are two firms in the Information Technology Services that compete against each other. Below is a comparison of their dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, earnings and valuation.

Earnings & Valuation

Gross Revenue

Price/Sales Ratio

Net Income

Earnings Per Share

Price/Earnings Ratio

EPAM Systems Inc.

1.84B

4.81

240.26M

4.16

39.02

Infosys Limited

11.54B

3.80

2.19B

0.49

22.10

Table 1 showcases the top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation of EPAM Systems Inc. and Infosys Limited. Infosys Limited seems to has lower earnings, but higher revenue compared to EPAM Systems Inc. The business that is more expensive between the two has a higher P/E ratio. EPAM Systems Inc.’s current P/E ratio is higher than that of Infosys Limited, which means that it is the expensive of the two.

A 1.64 beta means EPAM Systems Inc.’s volatility is 64.00% more than Standard and Poor’s 500’s volatility. Competitively, Infosys Limited’s beta is 0.55 which is 45.00% less volatile than Standard and Poor’s 500.

Liquidity

4.6 and 4.6 are the respective Current Ratio and a Quick Ratio of EPAM Systems Inc. Its rival Infosys Limited’s Current and Quick Ratios are 3.1 and 3.1 respectively. EPAM Systems Inc. has a better chance of clearing its pay short and long-term debts than Infosys Limited.

Dividends

On the other side Infosys Limited pays an annual dividend of $0.25 per share. It’s dividend yield is 2.43%. EPAM Systems Inc. does not pay a dividend.

Analyst Ratings

EPAM Systems Inc. and Infosys Limited Ratings and Recommendations are available on the next table.

Here are the Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Half Yearly, Yearly and YTD Performance of both pretenders.

Performance (W)

Performance (M)

Performance (Q)

Performance (HY)

Performance (Y)

Performance (YTD)

EPAM Systems Inc.

1.89%

14.86%

28.62%

13.82%

44.14%

40.07%

Infosys Limited

-0.83%

-0.74%

9.31%

5.93%

23.18%

13.22%

For the past year EPAM Systems Inc. was more bullish than Infosys Limited.

Summary

EPAM Systems Inc. beats Infosys Limited on 9 of the 16 factors.

EPAM Systems, Inc. provides product development and software engineering solutions worldwide. The company offers software product development services, including product research, customer experience design and prototyping, program management, component design and integration, lifecycle software testing, product deployment and end-user customization, performance tuning, product support and maintenance, and managed services, as well as porting and cross-platform migration. It also provides custom application development services, such as business and technical requirement analysis, user experience design, solution architecture creation and validation, development, quality assurance and testing, legacy applications re-engineering/refactoring, porting, and cross-platform migration and documentation. In addition, the company offers software application testing services, including test automation tools and frameworks; testing for enterprise IT, such as test management, automation, functional and non-functional testing, and defect management; and consulting services. Further, it provides enterprise application platform services comprising requirements analysis and platform selection, customization, cross-platform migration, implementation, integration, and support and maintenance. Additionally, the company offers application maintenance and support services, such as incident management, fault investigation diagnosis, work-around provision, application bug fixes, release management, enhancements, and third-party maintenance; and infrastructure management services, including application, database, network, server, storage, and systems operations management, as well as incident notification and resolutions. It serves software and technology companies in financial service, travel and consumer, software and hi-tech, media and entertainment, life sciences, and healthcare industries. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Newtown, Pennsylvania.

Infosys Limited, together with its subsidiaries, provides consulting, technology, and outsourcing services in North America, Europe, India, and internationally. It provides business information technology services, including application development and maintenance, independent validation, infrastructure management, and business process management services, as well as engineering services, such as engineering and life cycle solutions; and consulting and systems integration services comprising consulting, enterprise solutions, systems integration, and advanced technologies. The companyÂ’s products include Finacle, a banking solution that provides analytics, core banking, consumer e-banking, corporate e-banking, Islamic banking, mobile banking, origination, payments, SME enable, treasury, wealth management, and youth banking solutions. Its products also comprise Infosys Mana, a knowledge-based AI platform; Infosys Information Platform, an analytics platform that enables to get insights from various data sources for decisions across industries; AssistEdge, CreditFinanceEdge, ProcureEdge, and TradeEdge that are cloud-hosted business platforms; Panaya that enables various SAP and Oracle EBS changes; and Skava, which are digital experience solutions, as well as analytics, cloud, and digital transformation services. The company serves clients in the financial services, manufacturing, retail, consumer packaged goods and logistics, energy and utilities, communication and services, hi-tech, life sciences, healthcare and insurance, and other industries. The company was formerly known as Infosys Technologies Limited and changed its name to Infosys Limited in June 2011. Infosys Limited was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Bengaluru, India.

Science Applications International Corporation (NYSE:SAIC) and Infosys Limited (NYSE:INFY), are influenced by compare since they are both players …

Science Applications International Corporation (NYSE:SAIC) and Infosys Limited (NYSE:INFY), are influenced by compare since they are both players in the Information Technology Services. These factors are particularly influence the profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings and valuation of the two firms.

Earnings and Valuation

Gross Revenue

Price/Sales Ratio

Net Income

Earnings Per Share

Price/Earnings Ratio

Science Applications International Corporation

4.59B

0.92

197.00M

4.15

17.92

Infosys Limited

11.54B

3.79

2.19B

0.49

22.10

Table 1 demonstrates Science Applications International Corporation and Infosys Limited’s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation. Infosys Limited is observed to has lower earnings, but higher revenue than Science Applications International Corporation. When business has lower P/E means it is more affordable than its counterpart currently. Science Applications International Corporation’s currently lower P/E ratio means it is more affordable than Infosys Limited.

Profitability

Table 2 provides us the return on equity, net margins and return on assets of both companies.

Net Margins

Return on Equity

Return on Assets

Science Applications International Corporation

4.29%

55.1%

9.4%

Infosys Limited

18.98%

23.5%

18.6%

Volatility and Risk

Science Applications International Corporation is 55.00% more volatile than Standard & Poor’s 500 because the stock has a beta of 1.55. Competitively, Infosys Limited’s 45.00% volatility makes it less volatile than Standard & Poor’s 500, because of the 0.55 beta.

Liquidity

The Current Ratio and Quick Ratio of Science Applications International Corporation are 1.6 and 1.4 respectively. Its competitor Infosys Limited’s Current Ratio is 3.1 and its Quick Ratio is 3.1. Infosys Limited can pay off short and long-term obligations better than Science Applications International Corporation.

Dividends

Science Applications International Corporation shareholders receive an annual dividend of $1.24 per share which is subject to 1.73% dividend yield. Meanhile, Infosys Limited’s yearly dividend is $0.25 per share and 2.42% dividend yield.

Analyst Recommendations

Ratings and Recommendations for Science Applications International Corporation and Infosys Limited can be find in next table.

Sell Ratings

Hold Ratings

Buy Ratings

Rating Score

Science Applications International Corporation

0

2

2

2.50

Infosys Limited

0

4

0

2.00

$87.33 is Science Applications International Corporation’s average price target while its potential upside is 21.63%. Competitively the average price target of Infosys Limited is $10, which is potential -4.49% downside. The results provided earlier shows that Science Applications International Corporation appears more favorable than Infosys Limited, based on analyst view.

In this table we provide the Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Half Yearly, Yearly and YTD Performance of both pretenders.

Performance (W)

Performance (M)

Performance (Q)

Performance (HY)

Performance (Y)

Performance (YTD)

Science Applications International Corporation

-2.41%

10.87%

6.34%

-20.09%

2.99%

16.86%

Infosys Limited

-0.83%

-0.74%

9.31%

5.93%

23.18%

13.22%

For the past year Science Applications International Corporation was more bullish than Infosys Limited.

Summary

On 10 of the 17 factors Infosys Limited beats Science Applications International Corporation.

Science Applications International Corporation provides technical, engineering, and enterprise information technology (IT) services primarily in the United States. The companyÂ’s offerings include engineering; technology and equipment platform integration; maintenance of ground and maritime systems; logistics; training and simulation; operation and program support services; and end-to-end services, such as design, development, integration, deployment, management and operations, sustainment, and security of its customersÂ’ IT infrastructure. It serves the U.S. military comprising Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines, and Coast Guard; the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency; the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; the U.S. Department of State; and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The company was formerly known as SAIC Gemini, Inc. and changed its name to Science Applications International Corporation in September 2013. Science Applications International Corporation was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in McLean, Virginia.

Infosys Limited, together with its subsidiaries, provides consulting, technology, and outsourcing services in North America, Europe, India, and internationally. It provides business information technology services, including application development and maintenance, independent validation, infrastructure management, and business process management services, as well as engineering services, such as engineering and life cycle solutions; and consulting and systems integration services comprising consulting, enterprise solutions, systems integration, and advanced technologies. The companyÂ’s products include Finacle, a banking solution that provides analytics, core banking, consumer e-banking, corporate e-banking, Islamic banking, mobile banking, origination, payments, SME enable, treasury, wealth management, and youth banking solutions. Its products also comprise Infosys Mana, a knowledge-based AI platform; Infosys Information Platform, an analytics platform that enables to get insights from various data sources for decisions across industries; AssistEdge, CreditFinanceEdge, ProcureEdge, and TradeEdge that are cloud-hosted business platforms; Panaya that enables various SAP and Oracle EBS changes; and Skava, which are digital experience solutions, as well as analytics, cloud, and digital transformation services. The company serves clients in the financial services, manufacturing, retail, consumer packaged goods and logistics, energy and utilities, communication and services, hi-tech, life sciences, healthcare and insurance, and other industries. The company was formerly known as Infosys Technologies Limited and changed its name to Infosys Limited in June 2011. Infosys Limited was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Bengaluru, India.

Infosys Limited has a 0.55 beta, while its volatility is 45.00%, thus making it less volatile than Standard and Poor’s 500. Competitively, CSP Inc.’s 15.00% volatility makes it more volatile than Standard and Poor’s 500, because of the 1.15 beta.

Liquidity

Infosys Limited’s Current Ratio is 3.1 while its Quick Ratio is 3.1. On the competitive side is, CSP Inc. which has a 3.4 Current Ratio and a 2.9 Quick Ratio. CSP Inc. is better positioned to pay off short and long-term obligations compared to Infosys Limited.

Here are the Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Half Yearly, Yearly and YTD Performance of both pretenders.

Performance (W)

Performance (M)

Performance (Q)

Performance (HY)

Performance (Y)

Performance (YTD)

Infosys Limited

-0.83%

-0.74%

9.31%

5.93%

23.18%

13.22%

CSP Inc.

-0.99%

1.39%

-14.15%

-12.26%

-17.3%

2.85%

For the past year Infosys Limited’s stock price has bigger growth than CSP Inc.

Summary

Infosys Limited beats on 11 of the 14 factors CSP Inc.

Infosys Limited, together with its subsidiaries, provides consulting, technology, and outsourcing services in North America, Europe, India, and internationally. It provides business information technology services, including application development and maintenance, independent validation, infrastructure management, and business process management services, as well as engineering services, such as engineering and life cycle solutions; and consulting and systems integration services comprising consulting, enterprise solutions, systems integration, and advanced technologies. The companyÂ’s products include Finacle, a banking solution that provides analytics, core banking, consumer e-banking, corporate e-banking, Islamic banking, mobile banking, origination, payments, SME enable, treasury, wealth management, and youth banking solutions. Its products also comprise Infosys Mana, a knowledge-based AI platform; Infosys Information Platform, an analytics platform that enables to get insights from various data sources for decisions across industries; AssistEdge, CreditFinanceEdge, ProcureEdge, and TradeEdge that are cloud-hosted business platforms; Panaya that enables various SAP and Oracle EBS changes; and Skava, which are digital experience solutions, as well as analytics, cloud, and digital transformation services. The company serves clients in the financial services, manufacturing, retail, consumer packaged goods and logistics, energy and utilities, communication and services, hi-tech, life sciences, healthcare and insurance, and other industries. The company was formerly known as Infosys Technologies Limited and changed its name to Infosys Limited in June 2011. Infosys Limited was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Bengaluru, India.

CSP Inc., together with its subsidiaries, develops and markets information technology (IT) integration solutions and cluster computer systems for commercial and defense customers in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. The companyÂ’s High Performance Products segment offers computing systems for digital signal processing applications in the defense market; Ethernet adapters and solutions for various applications in the packet capture, financial transaction, broadcast video, and media markets, as well as ARC Series adapters for automated trading and network monitoring. Its Technology Solutions segment provides third-party computer hardware and software value added reseller services to various customers in Web and infrastructure hosting, education, telecommunications, healthcare services, distribution, financial and professional services, and manufacturing industries. This segment also offers professional IT consulting services, including implementation, integration, migration, configuration, installation, and project management services; unified storage platforms; virtualization solutions; enterprise security intrusion prevention, network access control, and unified threat management services; and IT security compliance services. Its professional IT consulting services also comprise unified communications, wireless and routing, and switching solutions; custom software applications and solutions development and support services; maintenance and technical support services; and managed IT services, such as monitoring, reporting, and management of alerts for the resolution and preventive general IT and IT security support tasks. This segment offers professional services for IT environments comprising advanced security, unified communications and collaboration, wireless and mobility, data center solutions, and network solutions. The company markets its products and services through direct sales force. CSP Inc. was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in Lowell, Massachusetts.